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Multiple Award Schedule Purchases: Improvements Needed Regarding Publicizing Agencies' Orders

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 12, 1992
Report No. NSIAD-92-88
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Summary:

GAO reviewed a random sample of 101 Multiple Award Schedule orders exceeding $25,000 for automated data processing and telecommunications services at six procurement offices at NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the Internal Revenue Service, and the military. This report discusses the extent to which these procurement offices complied with requirements to (1) publish preaward synopsis notices in the Commerce Business Daily, (2) describe the federal information processing requirements in the synopsis notices in terms that do not restrict competition, and (3) document the results of the synopsis notices and show that the procurement met the government's needs at the lowest possible cost. GAO also evaluates the extent to which Commerce Business Daily notices generated responses from suppliers and how anticipated administrative costs of buying in the commercial open market affected agencies' decisions about how to fulfill Multiple Award Schedule requirements.

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